Book review: The Essential Retirement Guide: A Contrarian’s Perspective by Frederick Vettese will make you think. (Institutional Investor)
Quote of the Day
"To summarize, strong supply and weak demand contributed to the collapse of oil prices through the first part of this year. Which if either of those fundamentals has changed since then is substantially less clear at this point."
(James Hamilton)
Markets
- The stock market has been whipsaw central. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Strategy diversification is different than asset allocation. (etftrends.com)
Offers
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Companies
- Typical. Airlines are now "rethinking" their fuel oil hedging programs. (wsj.com)
- Marriott ($MAR) is not giving up on a Starwood ($HOT) deal. (qz.com)
- Smaller phones are still a majority of the world smartphone market. (recode.net)
Finance
Funds
- ETFs are the new retail investor plaything. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Smart beta comes to Japan. (etf.com)
Global
Economy
- The Chicago Fed National Activity Index dropped in February. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Five economic charts to keep an eye on. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
Home wi-fi
- Why a new router may not fix your home wi-fi issues. (wsj.com)
- The tech gadget guys still think Eero is a potential solution to this problem. (amzn.to)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: lumpy factors. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
